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Blog Post 2
- The ecological source that I have chosen is a scholarly article that details the benefits of plant biodiversity to various ecosystems.
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1046/j.1365-2745.1998.00306.x
- The type of classification that this article would fall under is an academic peer-reviewed review article.
- This classification can be concluded as the author of the article, J.P. Grime, is of the Unit of Comparative Plant Ecology, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, suggesting he is an expert on the subject of plant biodiversity and ecology, as explored in the article. Under the acknowledgement section in the article, the author thanks reviewers for their constructive commentary on earlier drafts of the paper, which suggests it was peer-reviewed. Also, under the acknowledgement section, the Natural Environment Research Council’s research was referenced as a source in part of the article, suggesting that the paper was a review and not a research article. Furthermore, there are no sections in the article discussing methods or results for research within the paper. All this information suggests that the classification for such an article is indeed an academic peer-reviewed article.
